From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alex.buell@munted.org.uk
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using s3virge card in Sun Blade 2000
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:43:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110103.114301.102556157.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294083541.17576.11.camel@lithium>
From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@munted.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:39:01 +0000
> Secondly, is Linux fully capable of handling different graphic cards
> simultaneously? For example, plug in a pair of monitors and have
> consoles on both with disparate graphic cards i.e. XVR-500 and S3ViRGE
> etc?
Technically I don't think it can do it currently. Maybe just for
kernel message logging, but not for actual login consoles.
One TTY device is marked as the "console" and that's where all
tty[0-9]+ devices get instantiated upon.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-03 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-03 16:32 Using s3virge card in Sun Blade 2000 Alex Buell
2011-01-03 18:58 ` David Miller
2011-01-03 19:39 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-03 19:43 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-01-03 20:33 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-03 20:39 ` David Miller
2011-01-03 21:36 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-03 22:36 ` David Miller
2011-01-04 15:57 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-04 17:26 ` David Miller
2011-01-04 20:11 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-04 20:19 ` David Miller
2011-01-04 20:38 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-05 19:07 ` David Miller
2011-01-05 21:13 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-06 0:33 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-06 20:42 ` Francois Romieu
2011-01-06 20:50 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-06 22:24 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-06 22:29 ` David Miller
2011-01-06 23:25 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-06 23:34 ` Alex Buell
2011-01-03 20:37 ` Dave Airlie
2011-01-05 20:37 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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